TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schendel,Willem van
TI  - A history of Bangladesh
SN  - 9780521861748 (hbk.)
AV  - DS394.5 .S34 2009
U1  - 954.92 22
PY  - 2009/// [reprint 2016]
CY  - Cambridge, New Delhi
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Bangladesh
KW  - History
KW  - Bangla Desh
KW  - gtt
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-333) and index; TOC; A land of water and silt -- Jungle, fields, cities and states -- A region of multiple frontiers -- The delta as a crossroads -- From the Mughal empire to the British empire -- The British impact -- A closing agrarian frontier -- Colonial conflicts -- Towards partition -- Partition -- The Pakistan experiment -- Pakistan falls apart -- East Pakistani livelihoods -- The roots of aid dependence -- A new elite and cultural renewal -- Armed conflict -- A state is born -- Imagining a new society -- Creating a political system -- Transnational linkages -- Bursting at the seams -- A national culture? -- Conclusion; Economics
N2  - From ecological disaster to partition, this is a fascinating account of the extraordinary events that have produced modern Bangladesh
UR  - https://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-bangladesh/oclc/699888804&referer=brief_results
ER  -